Terrible Yu-Gi-Oh Stories from My Childhood. 

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It all began.. when I found those three cards in a parking lot.

My mum used to buy me cards once in a while. She’d hide them behind the visor in her car when she picked me up from school and it would fall in my lap when I lowered it. Lost her last year and I bought some cards as a reminder of those days (the scent of new cards throws me back to that time) and now I’ve been getting back into the game. I miss her so much ugh

parents who bought you yugioh cards are real ones

It was obviously Mako Tsunami running the tournament at the water park

For me it was my uncle. He gave me his massive collection of thousands of cards. Whole neighborhood was jealous of how many card's I had.

Single dad here, I appreciate how thankful you are for what your parents did for you. None of these things are for granted and it makes me happy that you realize that. I applaud you Paul, not many realize these kind of things.

The Littleroot town music was an excellent choice Paul, perfect nostalgia companion

The books a million I went to as a kid had a yu gi oh themed costume contest one time and I went as Pegasus. I wore red sweatpants, dug out an old halloween wig, used my mom's old red blazer that was too long for me and even made myself (with help from my amazing mother) an aluminium foil millennium eye. I'm sure I also had a really bad impression to go along with it all, yugi boy~ Needless to say my budget Pegasus won the like 12 packs and some kinda yugioh magazine or guidebook, which is the highlight of my storied yugioh career.

For me, someone gave my twin a Yugioh card, but didn't give me one. I was so jealous that I begun looking everywhere for it, despite not having my own money. My dad heard about it from me, so for our birthday, we each got a tin of Yugioh cards.

I mentioned that I wanted to get into yugioh, and my mom bought me 4 packs of metal raiders. First card I pulled was summoned skull. Been hooked ever since.

You were destined to be a Yugituber I got into Yugioh because of my brother and ofc watching the anime. I would always watch him duel in the library and eventually I started playing the game in middle school. I used a junk synchron deck and it would always be this back and forth between my friend Juan. He would always use different decks while I stuck with the same one but I was able to keep up with him and get some wins which would frustrate him sometimes. After middle school, I stopped playing because I couldn't find someone else to play with so the cards sat in storage. I got back into Yugioh in 2021 (last time I played was in 2016) because my roommate had cards and his homeboys also had cards. Occasionally, we would have multi-duels and started buying decks again.

Lucky you didn't grow up like my friend. His dad burned all of his Yu-Gi-Oh cards because he thought they were satanic.

I remember going to a books-a-million when i was younger too. Just a few people playing on the floor and one table at the corner of a store. I asked one of the older kids if he wanted to play, he must have been at least 19-20 and i was 12. I distinctly remember him having a fairy deck and his group of friends gathered around to watch us. All of them were heckling me for “playing bad” or using outdated cards, like Swords of Revealing Light. I remember it was a tough duel, but I managed to win the match against him and his friends actually acknowledged that I played well in the end. It was a really gratifying moment that I remember so vividly 20 years later.

My dad way back then had to remind my brothers and I when we got heated during a duel that making friends was more important than winning/the cards themselves. That basic life/Tea lesson in the show just completely went over our heads as kids.

I have to thank my friend/brother Andrew for handing me my first deck from the layer of darkness set back in 2016 when he and i went to camp. During the whole week that we stayed there i remember one of my staff members Jon North decided to bring his own Yu-Gi-Oh cards. He,Andrew,myself and another person whose name I can't think of all decided to have a mini Yu-Gi-Oh tournament at the cafeteria.That's when I learned how to build a deck and properly play the TCG. To this day with the exception of the Yu-Gi-Oh tag tournament that Andrew and i participated in back in 2018. That was the most fun i ever had playing a card game.

That’s called stealing. You should’ve told your parents. Parents can override any stupid rule a school or teacher has. I would’ve gotten in the teachers face for that. I was that kinda kid

back in the early 2000s my mom would buy me crazy looking yugioh Japanese cards. and i would give them out to my friends. They looked at me like a wizzard when i pulled out cards no one has ever seen lol

I am a gamer till i die because of my parents! I remember playing hydro thunder on the ps1 and taking turns when we died on vectorman. So glad you had parents that encouraged you!

When i was in 6/7th grade my grandma picked me up after school bc my parents were working all day so i stayed with her, after lunch and homework i went to my aunt's room to watch yugioh on tv.been an fan since, i still need to start my journey in the card game

The Crush Card Virus story is awesome. In all the time I have been playing TCGs(probably about 20 years at this point) I have never had a moment like that where I pull a mega rare and valuable card from a pack. Maybe one day. Great story and memories! Thanks for sharing!

You should be proud of yourself Paul. You're doing a good job and you make a meaningful impact just by being a voice in the community, and it's entertaining too. My friend and I play Yu-Gi-Oh. He had a Blue Eyes White Dragon when we were 7, his favorite card for sure! I remember he almost lost it. Once after church his mom came in and gathered up all his cards. His mom took his Deck to the kitchen and put a few cards onto a skillet. His mom lit the burner and the cards went up in flames! 🔥His mom starts throwing handfuls of cards into the fire. 🔥 🔥 My friend yelled, so his mom looked away, and I took my friends Blue Eyes off the counter. He lost everything else, but he was happy to see the one card saved. Not a cheerful story but it shows the bond of duelists and shows some of cultures. Some stories are more positive, but this is about my friend; who had the heart of the cards. We ended up playing more, and getting new cards. At that age he would brag about his cards at school. Made sense to keep it safe.

My first YuGiOh card ever was Beaver Warrior lol. The anime was also a huge reason for me getting into it.

One time in elementary school I kept a stack of like 100 cards including 3 blue eyes and like two whole whole structure decks in my desk and then it all got stolen one day. I was obliterated.

That blue eyes story hit hard because we had a "show and tell" and as a little kid I brought in a Falconzord (the white falcon power rangers toy) and the teacher confiscated it because I was playing with it, and I KID YOU NOT, I literally saw her walking with her kid with it in his hands... So yes, I 100% believe your teacher gave it to her kids. Just because they are teachers, doesn't mean they are not thieves.

I remember having to drive an hour to a Toys-R-Us in the next town over to get our packs. Of course, when we did start getting them at the local mall, my allowance was such a pittance that I could barely afford any packs.

Dang, sweet video. So many sliding door moments and that video camera from the Crush Card was the icing on a sweet cake!

So happy you posted! Was worried after you posted your community post that you might stop uploading for a very long time. Hope the move goes well!

That teacher definitely gave your Blue Eyes to her nephew or something 😂

My dad bought me and my cousins our first Yugioh packs but Yugioh was still so new that he bought Japanese packs and we had no idea until we opened them. We had no idea what any of the cards said but we still had fun making up effects kinda like they did in Duelist Kingdom

Miss G definitely had to know what that card was because there's no way I'd forget I confiscated a Yu-Gi-Oh card from a kid on that same day.

Littleroot town theme goes crazy on this kind of video. Love it Paul!

I really like the added footage to this video! Really does feel more “complete” or like one I should properly watch rather than listen to in the background

Shonen Jump Manga got introduced me to Yugioh and the Dollar General i would always walk to is where i first saw LoB packs. I didn't know about structure decks until one of our trips to Wal-Mart and my mom pointed out that they sell cards too. I usually just went to the electronics section and then found her and we leave. I saw the starter decks and even though Yugi was badass in the manga i liked Dragons and so naturally i got Kaiba's deck. Now at 41 years old i think i got like 20+ Blue-eyes. I do miss how i used to feel seeing one and now it's like getting a free token when you see one😂

That kid yelled on purpose for you to get your card confiscated and the teacher was definitely lying about not having it. You should've called her bluff or BS out and if she kept saying she doesn't have it then ask who stole it as she took the card from you in front of the whole class. It's your personal property, you need to do what you can to get it back. Its against the rules for a teacher to keep a students personal property that they confiscate after hours.

I love these stories. They're so unique and interesting. W for bookstores selling Yugioh.

I hate that teacher

I kinda had a similar story to your first one Paul. I don't remember the complete details but I remember a teacher confiscated my Yugi deck, and than when I asked for it back she gave it to me and I looked inside and was like "Um....where are the cards" and the teacher was like "Idk". I was so mad man like good lord. Don't try realize how hard it was for kids to get a hold on some Yu-Gi-Oh cards ?

Horrible yugioh stories I lived as a kid -stepping on my exodia head thus creasing it -trading my dawn of destiny Ra because I, "have another one" (it's fake) -walking through a waist high creek without remembering my deck box is in my pocket -getting slappled at a local with my unoptomized singleton beatdown deck

Love the video! Those kinda stories always make me think of good childhood memories.

Funny how it was said that there was only 3 and now everyone owns like 300

I started my yu-gi-oh dueling "career" in my last year of middle school/ early high school. My first ever deck was the Link Strike Starter Deck, and my mother told me "you don't need those they're a waist of money, but my oldest sibling bought me it and I was so happy. Still have every single card from that deck to this day. Even bought the structure decks to go along with it and the Maze of Memories pack box, WHERE I PULLED FIREWALL DRAGON DARKFLUID NEO TEMPEST TERAHERTZ IN THE SECOND TO LAST PACK!!!!!!! So yeah, I'd say my 5 year anniversary (which was the 6th of this month) of being a duelist has been well spent.

My first deck was Joey's. Red Eyes Black Dragon was just the coolest thing in the world to me. Show and tell that week I was so excited so I could play with my friend that already had Yugi. Not sure who won but I just remember drawing my Red Eyes and summoning right away without tribute because playground rules lol. Skip forward a bit that same year, I fell pray to the ice cream truck selling fake cards. Got all 3 god cards that were fake. Never used them in a duel but I always would put them in my hand just because they looked cool. Been on and off with YGO since. Would love to hear more nostalgic stories from the rest of team APS about Yu-Gi-Oh!

My mom and a mom and pop shop called Sammy's candy had my back. If you got all A's he'd give you a free pack of your choice.

I remember going up to a local store called "Hastings" to play Yugioh tournaments. When I was a kid, they had just released the Shonen Jump issue 1 mangas at our store. I ended up getting the Blue Eyes promo card that it came with. A few weeks later I found out that we had got too many copies shipped to our store and Hastings had a policy to throw out any unsold stuff after a short amount of time. I remember finding like 20 Blue Eyes promo cards in the trash near the store. The only time I ever dumpster dived!

Damn i feel that LoB BEWD story. I have a similar story where i had one of those og Winged Dragon of Ra cards that couldnt be played in a duel, that i got from my Xbox copy of Yu-Gi-Oh Dawn of Destiny game it was one of the 3 premotional cards that came with the game and i was so hyped. I remembered that i had heard of the Egyptian god cards from some friends down the road, and i thought wow this is the coolest ever! So like the 6 year old i was, i brought it to school to show it off. I was showin it off to everyone that played and collected and doing this caught notice of this really nerdy 5th grader who had a binder that was absolutely packed with cool cards. He had pieces of Exodia, he had 3 blue eye, he had all kinds of shit. And this guy was arogant, he did believe that i could possibly have an Egyptian God card claiming that it was fake, and i was all like a kid with "nuh uh, its real!" And he decided he'd con me out of it, he said he'd take it and look at it to verify thqt it was real and get it back to me at the end of the day, and like the niave child i was i saw no problem with that. Well at the end of the school day the kid gets back to me and he doesnt have his binder on him just some imperial trap card that i cant remember at this point and he convinced me to trade my god card for that trap card which he insisted could beat the god cards anyway. So i ended up getting taken advantage of and losing my Egyptian God card for one of the lesser imperial trap cards of back in the day. I just remember it was like the emperor casting out some peasant was the art work.

Slice of life videos are fun! Quite nostalgic too.

I love hearing other people’s younger takes on Yugioh! I grew up when Yugioh was realeases and me and my friends drew the cards we wanted because nothing existed! I went to one of my friends houses and he was so excited to show me that he had REAL YuGiOh cards! I could not believe it and we split his deck and played with 20 cards each for hours! Once Yugioh got more popular we were all playing on the playground! My friend had an older brother a few years older and when we both went to the same secondary school, on the first day, they came up to me and was like “did you bring your deck” I so excitedly said YES, and they threw me into a corner and said “bin them, never bring them back”. The next day, the older years we’re throwing weight and grabbing younger kids, emptying pockets and a poor kid had Yugioh cards and he was bullied so heavily along with any other kid that had Pokémon, Digimon Yugioh etc. it was a sad but thankful moment when I realised I’d crossed a border, and even more sad when some kids embraced it and just set up groups to play and have fun, but I never felt I could because I was so scared or being shamed. I will always respect everyone that plays Yugioh freely, when I always spent my teenage years playing in secret, begging others not to tell my friends I was playing! I was a coward to “what was cool”

It should have been called Books a million Pegasus.

Funny how you started at Book a Million. Our local store had yugioh duels and tournaments on the weekends here in Myrtle Beach S.C

You may not have been allowed to bring gameboys or yugioh cards, pokemon cards, whatever to school. But that never stopped us.

My Dad actually played the TCG with me growing up, he also played Forbidden Memories and Duelists of the Roses with me as well, very thankful for my Dad taking an interest in my hobby

Wait wait wait... a WATER PARK hosted a CARD GAME event? Uh............ that's basically a water park hosting a dryness competition. What a bad idea.

It all started in 02 around the time Metal Raiders came out. My mom bought me some blister packs of Metal Raiders for my 10th bday. I didn't quite understand how to play so I kept watching the anime on TV to get the idea of it. By the time I was 12 I taught myself how to play casual level YGO. So I've been playing the game roughly for like 20 years now. Even tho my parents were divorced my dad also bought me packs and stuff. So I owe it to both of my parents as well. (RIP mom) I still have the Suijin I pulled from those first Metal Raiders packs. I keep it next to my mom's urn ❤

I love how he’s talking bout yu-gi-oh and has Pokemon in the background Littleroot theme ❤

I started off in late 2004 watching YuGiOh GX with my brother. My first card was The Wicked Worm Beast that my brother gave me. Between 2004-2006 me and my brother collected cards, though we still didn't know how to play the game. My deck was a hodge-podge of whatever commons I got and the cards from the Pyramid of Light movie pack. It wasn't until late 2006 after the release of Cyberdark Impact that me and my brother learned how to play the game. I got a bunch of packs of Cyberdark Impact and The Lost Millennium for my birthday and Christmas and my deck got a big upgrade and had Ancient Gears, VWXYZ, and the Inpachi cards in it.

That exact thing happened to me but with my digimon Detector the teacher took it and then quit the next day never saw her again 😭😭😭

I got into Yu-Gi-Oh when my friend gave me my deck with my favorite card, Felgrand Dragon. I didn't understand his effect because I was 5 and didn't know better, but I played that card every time I dual. I lost that card for a while but I managed to get another copy of it when I was 13. That card can't help me with modern Yu-Gi-Oh duals but that card was my ace monster and I'm glad he got an upgrade to fit today's world.

When I was a kid, there just wasn't much yugioh stuff around. I remember we had gotten decks (of fake cards, which I don't think we knew at the time) and I had left mine somewhere and lost it. I remember my mom taking me around everywhere asking about it to see if anybody had seen it, and later when we had given up taking me around to all these different stores to see if any of them had cards, but no luck. It wasn't until way later and coming to the states that I finally saw (real) cards for sale, and I ended up getting my first start with the spellcaster structure deck. I remember loving the dark eradicator warlock and I still have it to this day. We didn't have much money or really an allowance of any kind, but my mom would still sometimes just buy us a pack or two at walmart, and I would sometimes use money I had saved up from birthdays and holidays to get a structure deck too. I remember feeling so cool when I had gotten 3 of the kaiba decks from gamestop and owned 3 copies of a blue eyes white dragon. My mom also supported me going around looking for supplies to make a binder with card sleeves to organize all of them instead of having a card shoebox like my brother, and although I upgraded to newer binders I still have some of the same sheets inside them to this day

It was my cousin, in my case. I was 6 and didn't even know about the anime yet, but he made us decks out of the cards he had available to teach me how to play the game. Funny enough, the first card he gave me to keep was Bubonic Vermin (which got a mention in this video lmao). Absolute trash card, yeah, but I still have the same one today over 20 years later. It's in terrible condition, but it's alive.

For me,its when tv station in my country airing first Yugioh anime and later kiosks in nearby my school sell fake but real Yugioh cards

I'll never forget my dad taking me to Toys r Us and getting starter deck Joey 20 something years ago. Also one of the very first things I remember my mom buying on the internet was one of the original Yu-Gi-Oh tins.

Thanks for sharing Paul. The card that was stolen from me was Call of the Haunted back in elementary school.

I had a similar experience with my teacher taking my Perfectly Ultimate Great Moth, and she didn't give it back until the end of my school year.

This is now one of my favorite yugioh videos

When I was younger I was a grade or two behind on my reading level. There was nothing you could do to get me to read a book. So my parents took notice that I liked to play Yugioh and I'd spend entire afternoons reading my cards and making new decks. Well they started buying me packs of cards randomly. Come to find out now that I'm an adult they admitted to buying the cards to give me something I enjoyed reading. My reading level and comprehension did improve when I was younger and I owe that to my parents and Yugioh!

My earliest yugioh memories, using regular playing cards and imagining that they were yugioh cards

I don't recall the exact moment. I was 4 at the time. Got a booster pack and split the 5 cards into 2 "decks" to duel my dad. Few weeks later he came home with the first starter decks.

For the longest time, I used to think the Egyptian God Cards were banned and too powerful for IRL Yugioh. I also only ever saw fake ones around the playground which to my mind meant it must be true that the cards don't actually exist IRL. I also have a similar water park story! I went with friends and families of friends to a water park place, and we brought our cards everywhere to play while we're all hanging out. Somehow, my parents put my cards in a bag before we left, but it was the bag where we put our wet clothes. My entire collection I had spent 2 years collecting and building was completely destroyed. I cried lol.

There is one funny story that a lot of brazilian old school players will recall. Around 2003 a very famous TV show hoster (Gilberto Barros) called the yugioh cards “demon cards” and burned them on live TV. A lot of really religious moms started doing the same to the cards their kids own. I am really thankfull that my mom is not much religious, because I lived in a small town during that time and I remember that from 15-20 kids that used to play just me and one more still had that cards after that day

My favorite memory though is seeing the Pyramid of Light movie in theatres and getting the card

Most likely your friend swiped it from her desk

Thank you for more content!! Please keep it up in any way possible

If that was me as a kid I would have either stolen it back or destroyed the classroom in the process... kid me was an unhinged little demon child

Paul deserves compensation from that teacher 😂

😂😂 5:31 paul of course you can. I always called my teachers out they hated and loved it at the same time. 2nd grade i gained way too much confidence lol

It's crazy that schools don't let cards or games my school allowed any game as long as it was pg and there was no stealing or fighting

When I was a kid I was in this after school 2nd language program. At the end of the year we had a party and I traded this kid my moon cake for the strongest monster I’d ever seen - 3500 attack. It was dark so I couldn’t read the effect but when I got home I could finally see the name - Ultimate Obedient Fiend

How i startd yugioh was a random kid in grade 1 giving me a card. I then watched Yu-Gi-Oh zexal bc Yu-Gi-Oh seemed interesting. I had already been collecting pokemon cards and soon after i got a monarch starter deck.

I’m imaging a teacher’s desk with a $40k 1st ed blue eyes white dragon underneath a pile of sticky notes and paper clips

I couldn’t count the amount of beyblades that school has taken from me .

Video idea/challenge TeamAPS should take on a weird challenge where they try to make a fun carpool for a custom format (that all that is different is the card pool) using only a 250 card card pool. 🤔🤔 sounds like fun chaos

This was such a wholesome and awesome video! Absolutely love it!

I remember as a kid my dad was 100% behind me on whatever nerdy hobby I'd actually show interest in, but my mom was very heavily against whatever nerdy hobby I was showing interest in, and she wanted me to be a "normal" kid, it was really rough for me Especially because I live deep in the countryside, so there weren't any Yugioh tournaments for me to enter even back in the day

I miss places like Hastings and B•A•M Great places for kids and teenagers to hangout at. Had everything my lil geek heart desired.

Great video which was greatly appreciated! Stellar entertainment this humble wednesday evening (Central European Time) Also, shame on your teacher for not only confiscating your Blue-Eyes but rather nonchalantly depriving you of your at the time (probably) most prized cardpossession! Keep up the good work!

I started pretty much the same way, I got a Kaiba starter deck on christmas shortly after the show first aired, and the rest is history :p

really loved this video. I had a Flip camera too hahah. Gotta appreciate parents !

I bought a mystery bag and it had a deck full of fakes in there along with others unrelated toys. That was 8 years ago and I regret nothing

never got the blue eyes back, not how I saw the story ending. Damn.

Started in 5th grade at lunch. My friends had them and were playing, which made me jealous lol. I begged my mom and she took my brother and I to Toys R' Us, where we got both Yugi and Kaiba starter decks each. I also had a fake Obelisk at one point and forced my friends to let me use it 🤣

I remember Mt calm Baptist church tutoring I always see u with yugioh cards and also drawing sonic.

That sucks about losing that Blue-Eyes, my condolences. I had a similar story when I was a kid but fortunately (for both me and the teacher) they let me just put them away in my bag and not take them.... Probably because at 12 I was already 6ft and had 30lbs on my teacher and grabbed their wrist when they went to grab them....

Damn wish I could turn back time, good old days

Your teacher activated "Confiscation" & "Snatch Steal" in the same turn. RIP LOB "Blue-eyes". Commemorating Ulti-Cannahawk no longer on the F & L list. 🐦 ⚡️

side note, dude thats the best shirt ever

I'm an English teacher who has a game club... I bring the Yugioh cards to school now and literally play Yugioh with my students.

Your yuigog journey is so similar to mine its insane lol.

I got the LOB BEWD when I was a kid but my neighbor kept it. Long story short I gave him money to go to 711 for a booster pack. He opened it, and out of all cards that it could have been, it was BEWD. He kept it and last time I gave him money to buy a booster pack at 711.

I remember when my older sister and I got the Insect Queen Tin and each of us got some packs of it. We used rubber bands to put our decks to our wrists in a way to pretend drawing from a duel disk. Also, we thought, you had to put Equip Spells underneath the monstery like at Xyz monsters nowadays^^ She always defeated me back then with her Blue-Eyes White Dragon. I remember getting a random card, Dragon Manipulator and I put it in my deck just because of that Blue-Eyes^^ And later, I also got Emes the Infinity, letting me finally defeat Blue-Eyes, just to have it destroyed by Dark Hole^^